Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). Loyola University Medical Center is a 559-bed academic medical center and teaching hospital firmly rooted in the Jesuit Catholic faith. The hospital belongs to Loyola Medicine, a quaternary-care system with a 61-acre medical center campus in…
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Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest (Allentown, Pa.). Lehigh Valley Hospital’s roots date back to 1899, when 13 women raised $5,300 for a plot of land in Allentown to open a hospital for their community. The hospital is the flagship location of…
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). The Johns Hopkins Hospital opened on May 7, 1889. The hospital and the university were incorporated and endowed by Johns Hopkins, a wealthy Quaker businessman known as Baltimore’s greatest philanthropist. The organization is one of the first…
John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek (Calif.). John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek was founded in the late 1950s by 50 physicians. After several years of fundraising, the physicians and community members purchased a site upon which to build the hospital.…
Intermountain Medical Center (Murray, Utah). Asthe flagship hospital of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, Intermountain Medical Center consists of five interconnected centers of excellence encompassing 1.7 million square feet. The architectural conception and construction of this high-tech facility took over…
Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church, Va.). Inova Fairfax Hospital, the flagship hospital of the nonprofit Inova Health System, welcomed its first patients in February 1961. The 833-bed hospital is home to Northern Virginia’s only Level I trauma center. The Inova Fairfax…
Indiana University Health University Hospital (Indianapolis). Indiana University Health University Hospital celebrated its first century of service in 2014. What began as the 115-bed Long Hospital in the early 1900s has evolved into a 400-bed academic medical center with more than…
Houston Methodist Hospital. Houston Methodist Hospital, the flagship hospital of the Houston Methodist system, has served patients from the Houston community and around the world for more than 90 years. What began as a 30-bed hospital has evolved into one of…
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia). Penn Medicine’s history of patient care dates back more than two centuries to the founding of the first U.S. hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, in 1751, followed by the opening of the nation’s first…
Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City). Hospital for Special Surgery, which opened its doors in 1863, is the nation’s oldest orthopedic hospital. Today, surgeons at the 215-bed hospital perform more than 29,000 surgical procedures each year, with more hip…